Trimming out table top (worried about movement)
Devin6945
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I am building a table with kiln dried pine, I am planning on surfacing all four sides before glue up and then surfacing the faces of the panel. I am wanting to add a piece of 3/4″ pine around the perimeter on the bottom of the top to “trim out” the table, is this a bad idea? what are your suggestions to attach the trim? any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
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Are you wanting to add molding around all 4 edges of the table? Or make it appear thicker?
Wrapping the top like a picture in a frame is a bad idea IMHO. Adding trim below the edge for visual purposes can be done but . . . You will have to use a method to deal with the long grain to cross grain connections. Sliding dovetails, slotted holes with screws or other typical means. All of these would add more fussiness than I would want to deal with for the rewards of doing so.
If you need a visually thicker edge, long grain to long grain trim under those edges and a bread board at the cross grain could do it. If you just want to "dress up" the edges I would do so with your finishing technique (plane, sand, etc.) as opposed to creating the wood movement issues that come with framing in solid wood without floating the panel. Note the edge and end grain in the left of the pic.
Did that makes sense? It's early here. ;-)
What are the dimensions? Yes you can do that, however on the end grain you should keep it parallel meaning you'll need to piece several short sections together rather than gluing a long strip on the ends. Hope this makes sense.
your other option would be a breadboard end.
[edit] I guess I just repeated the previous poster :-)
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